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'The Artist' Leads 84th Annual Academy Awards' Winners
02/27/2012
Oscar night always holds its share of surprises, and this year was no different, with the black-and-white silent film, The Artist, sweeping awards in the highly coveted Best Picture, Best Actor (first-time winner Jean Dujardin), and Best Director (Michel Hazanavicius) categories, and also nabbing awards for Costume Design and Original Score.
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Predictions: Who Will Win At The Oscars
02/24/2012
By Monday, the 84th Academy Awards will have come and gone, leaving in their path the crushed hopes of (on average) 80% of the nominated actors, writers, producers, directors and other movie-making folk.
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Sacha Baron Cohen Asked Not To Attend Oscars As 'Dictator'
02/23/2012
Though actor / comedian Sacha Baron Cohen is famous for bringing his often-controversial brand of comedy a little close to home, this year the Academy Awards is trying to rein in his creative expression.
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Deconstructing The Best Costume Design Nominees
02/07/2012
The Oscar for Best Costume Design has always been a niche award, designated mainly for period movies. Perhaps it’s because the nomination committee has a penchant for nostalgia or — more likely — because the dress of bygone times has a special place in our imaginations.
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Boardwalk Empire
09/27/2010
HBO’s new hit Boardwalk Empire stands at the intersection of movie and television show, drawing a little from both to form a compelling series about 1920s Atlantic City and the lives of the gangsters who defy Prohibition.
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Oscar Nominations By The Numbers
01/24/2012
The nominations for the 84th Academy Awards are in as of today, and we've already told you who's in — and who's out. But on top of all that, there's still a mess of trivia to make sense of before you host your own Oscars party on Sunday, February 26, so we're going to break it down for you by the numbers.
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George Clooney, Tilda Swinton Named Best By National Board of Review
12/02/2011
As Oscar season heats up, many film critics associations will announce their picks for the best of the year. This year, The National Board of Review has named Hugo the best film and its director, Martin Scorsese, the best director.
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Hugo
11/28/2011
Martin Scorsese making a kid’s movie in 3D starring the guy from Borat sounds more like a nightmare world’s April Fool’s prank than a Thanksgiving family offering at the multiplex. Yet, here we find ourselves, where the man most children would know as the guy who directed those movies where the burglar from Home Alone swears a lot looks to get his enchantment on, and in the process becomes the latest big name director to wholeheartedly embrace the dreaded 3D.
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PREVIEW: Leonardo DiCaprio Plays J. Edgar Hoover In Clint Eastwood Film
09/20/2011
Clint Eastwood is quickly becoming as much of a legend behind the camera as he was in front of it during the first part of his career, and maybe that's why he's so good at bringing other historical legends to life in the movies he directs.
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The 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards: Who Needs Hollywood?
09/19/2011
Last night marked the 63rd Annual Emmy awards and what a great night it was. The show opened with host, Jane Lynch, in an epic song (well, lip-synch) and dance that featured the cast from several popular TV shows including The Big Bang Theory, Mythbusters, the Office and Mad Men.
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VIDEO: FBI Captures Mob Boss Who Inspired 'The Departed'
06/23/2011
Boston mob boss James Bulger, 81, who was known as "Whitey" to his Irish-American crime family and served as the inspiration for Jack Nicholson's character in the 2006 Oscar-winning Martin Scorsese film, The Departed, was arrested in Santa Monica, Calif.
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Martin Scorsese Helps Kick Off Tribeca Film Festival
04/21/2011
The 10th annual Tribeca Film Festival was commenced on Wednesday night with a community celebration held on the lower Manhattan waterfront near Ground Zero. Festivities included a performance by Elton John, including classic songs such as "Tiny Dancer" and "Rocket Man," and appearances by legendary director Martin Scorsese and Denis Leary.
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DiCaprio & Stone Unite for 'Travis McGee'
04/01/2010
20th Century Fox has announced that Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone has signed on board to develop, and possibly direct, their upcoming Travis McGee project, based on John McDonald’s long-running detective series, with Leonardo DiCaprio already set to star as the eponymous gumshoe.
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Shutter Island
02/23/2010
Shutter Island, based on the 2003 mind-bending page-turner by Dennis Lehane, could be called a standard piece of genre filmmaking, rife with misdirection, plot twists, and clichéd dialogue. But because Martin Scorsese directed it, and it stars his favorite new muse Leonardo DiCaprio, it will almost certainly be held against his last work, the fantastic The Departed.